The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will present a virtual lecture via Zoom on August 19th at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Lisbeth Louderback and Bruce Pavlik will present “Detecting domestication of the Four Corners potato.”
The common potato was domesticated over 7,000 years ago in the high Andes and is now the third most important crop in the world, with more than 4,500 varieties. Recent evidence, however, suggests that a novel potato species, known as the Four Corners Potato, was manipulated by ancient people sometime during the last 12,000 years.
Louderback is currently curator of Archaeology at the Natural History Museum of Utah and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. Her most recent research has focused on the ecology of human diets during the Holocene at North Creek Shelter in southern Utah. Pavlik is currently director of conservation at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum at the University of Utah. His research has focused on the ecology and physiology of plants native to western North America.
To join the Zoom meeting use https://bit.ly/2PO6pPj, meeting ID: 857 8070 6701, passcode: 578820.
